The Classics and Colonial India

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Cover Contents List of Figures List of Plates Introduction PART I. ALEXANDER IN INDIA 1. Dreams of Alexander Two Visions of Empire: Droysen and Grote Geographies of Conquest In the Footsteps of Alexander Kafiristan 2. Sikandar and the History of India Writing the History of India From Alexander to Sikandar PART II. CAESAR IN PECCAVISTAN 3. Greater Rome and Greater Britain De imperiis Charles Dilke and John Seeley Rome and the Empire A ‘Natural’ Comparison 4. Visions of Antiquity: Architecture and the Classical Style Tropical Classical Theorizing Colonial Architecture 5. Competitionwallahs: Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service The East India Company’s Training College at Haileybury The Mid-Century Reform The Open Competition Oxford, Greats, and the ICS Indians and the Open Competition Conclusion Appendix: The Examinations PART III. CO-OPERATION AND LIBERATION 6. Homer and Virgil Homer in India Virgil in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain Virgil in Nineteenth-Century Britain History in the Future Tense 7. Aristophanes’ Wealth and Dalpatram’s Lakshmi A Gujarati Translation of Aristophanes The Context of Colonial Gujarat 8. Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Michael Madhusudan Dutt Athens in Calcutta Epilogue: Gandhi, Nehru, Socrates Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z